Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Rheumatologist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (Worthing & Southlands Hospitals)
Research interests
My laboratory-based postgraduate research into SLE was carried out at the Hammersmith Hospital (Imperial College London). I also have a clinical research interest into gout. I am a reviewer for numerous journals including Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Rheumatology (Oxford), Arthritis Care & Research, the Journal of Rheumatology, the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, the Foundation Years Journal, the Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin and the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Personal interests
Aviation; golf; running; rowing
Awards received
ARC Undergraduate Prize in Rheumatology (1992)
Barbara Ansell Prize, Royal Society of Medicine (2003)
Nominee, Worthing Herald Community Star Awards (2011)
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society Healthcare Champion Award (2013)
Publications
Hepburn A.L., Kaye S.A., Feher M.D., Long-term remission from gout associated with fenofibrate therapy. Clin Rheumatol 2003; 22: 73-76
Feher M.D., Hepburn A.L., Hogarth M.B., Ball S.G., Kaye S.A. Fenofibrate enhances urate reduction in allopurinol-treated men with hyperuricaemia and gout. Rheumatology 2003; 42: 321-325
Hepburn A.L, Lampert I.A., Boyle J.J., Horncastle D., Ng W.F., Layton M., Vyse T.J.,Botto M., Mason J.C. In vivo evidence of apoptosis in the bone marrow in systemic lupus erythematosus. Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 1106-9
Hepburn A.L., Mason J.C., Davies K.A. Expression of complement and Fc receptors on peripheral blood monocytes in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 2004; 43: 547-554
Hepburn A.L., Mason J.C., Wang S., Shepherd C.J., Florey O., Haskard D.O., Davies K.A. Both Fc and complement receptors mediate the transfer of immune complexes from erythrocytes to human macrophages under physiological flow conditions in vitro. Clin Exp Immunol 2006; 146: 133-145
Hepburn A.L, Feher M.D. Gout. N Eng J Med 2004; 350: 519-520
Hepburn A.L., Narat, S., Mason J.C.The management of peripheral blood cytopenias in systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology 2010; 49: 2243-2254
Hepburn AL, Rider TG, Jordan KM. Gout: clarifying some aspects of management. BMJ 2011; 342: d115
Villiers J, Clark DW, Jeswani T, Webster S, Hepburn AL. An atraumatic femoral fracture in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis treated with denosumab.Case Rep Rheumatol. 2013;2013:249872. doi: 10.1155/2013/249872. Epub 2013 Dec 7
Ellis S.D., Kelly S.T., Shurlock J.H., Hepburn A.L. The role of vitamin D testing and replacement in fibromyalgia: a systematic literature review. BMC Rheumatology 2018 2: 28 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-018-0035-6
Courses offered to GPs
I am happy to give seminars on any Rheumatological topic in primary care, including practical sessions on joint and soft tissue injections